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"The Art of Writing," Detachment and the Writing of History [ed. Snyder (1958)] - Becker, Carl | WIST Quotations
If the thought or substance is fully mastered, the style will take care of itself. Good style in writing is like happiness in living -- something that comes to you, if it comes at all, only if you are pre-occupied with something else: if you deliberately go after it, you…